› Indigenous people are hurting, not because they hate Canada, but because they love this land so much, says Indigenous student blogger Tarene Thomas in this latest Canada 150 post: My Country, With a Catch.

› Check out English and Film Studies professor Keavy Martin‘s fascinating look behind the missing copies of a classic of Indigenous literature: Mini Aodla Freeman’s Life Among the Qallunaat. Originally published by friend of the faculty (and then publisher) Mel Hurtig in 1978 (reissued in 2015 thanks to Keavy Martin, Julie Rak and Norma Dunning), hundreds of copies lay in boxes in the basement of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, never to be seen again. Read the full story here.

› Congratulations to UAlberta’s New Trail alumni magazine, which just won gold for Best Print Magazine from Prix D’Excellence, the annual awards program of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. The judges were impressed by the innovative approaches to storytelling in the autumn 2016 issue, featuring the annotated story The Annotated Rudy Wiebe and the interactive Choose Your Own Adventure story, So You Have an Arts Degree!